Glauketas

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Glauketas (fl. 315-300 BC) was a corsair chief active in the Aegean Sea during 4th Century BC. Although little is known about his life, he is recorded in ancient Greek insciptions of the Athenian navy under Thymochares of Sphettos raiding his base on Kythnos and capturing he and his men "making the sea safe for those that sailed thereon."

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Pritchett, William Kendrick. The Greek State at War. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1974. ISBN 0-520-02565-2
Rogozinski, Jan. Pirates!: Brigands, Buccaneers, and Privateers in Fact, Fiction, and Legend. New York: Da Capo Press, 1996. ISBN 0-306-80722-X